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- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Part 1 Among the People: How to Conduct Qualitative Research
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Go to the People
- A Note on the History of Qualitative Methods
- Qualitative Methodology
- Theory and Methodology
- Notes
- Chapter 2 Research Design and Pre-Fieldwork
- Research Design
- Selecting Settings
- Obtaining Institutional Review Board Approval
- Writing Proposals
- Access to Organizations
- Access to Public and Quasi-Public Settings
- Access to Private Settings
- What Do You Tell Gatekeepers and Informants?
- Collecting Data About Obtaining Access
- Covert Research
- Chapter 3 Participant Observation: In the Field
- Entering the Field
- Negotiating Your Role
- Establishing Rapport
- Participation
- Key Informants
- Difficult Field Relations
- Forming Relationships
- Field Tactics
- Asking Questions
- Learning the Language
- Field Notes
- Boundaries of a Study
- Leaving the Field
- Triangulation
- Ethics in the Field
- Chapter 4 In-Depth Interviewing
- The Qualitative Interview
- Types of Interview Studies
- Choosing to Interview
- Selecting Informants
- Approaching Informants
- Understanding the Interview in Context
- Managing the Interview Situation
- Getting People to Talk About What Is Important to Them
- The Interview Guide
- Probing
- Cross-Checks
- Relations With Informants
- Recording Interviews
- Group Interviews
- The Interviewer’s Journal
- Note
- Chapter 5 Montage: Discovering Methods
- Disrupting the “Commonsense World of Everyday Life”: Harold Garfinkel
- Qualitative Research as Autobiography
- Entering a World Without Words
- Personal Documents
- Picturing Disability
- Photography and Videotaping
- Official Records and Public Documents
- Historical and Archival Research
- Notes
- Chapter 6 Working With Data: Data Analysis in Qualitative Research
- Narratives: Descriptive and Theoretical Studies
- Building Theory
- Working With Data
- Constructing Life Histories
- Part 2 Writing Qualitative Research: Selected Studies
- Chapter 7 Writing and Publishing Qualitative Studies
- What You Should Tell Your Readers
- Some Tips on Writing
- Common Mistakes in Writing From Qualitative Data
- Publishing Qualitative Studies
- Selected Studies
- Chapter 8 “You’re Not a Retard, You’re Just Wise”: Disability, Social Identity, and Family Networks
- The Duke Family
- The Study
- Disability Labels and Family Constructions
- Social Identities
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 9 Producing Family Time: Practices of Leisure Activity Beyond the Home
- Methods and Data
- Findings
- Discussion: Family as Socially Organized Practice
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 10 Ethnicity and Expertise: Racial-Ethnic Knowledge in Sociological Research
- Method
- Analysis
- Discussion
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 11 Citizen Portraits: Photos of People With Disabilities as Personal Keepsakes
- Settings
- Hiding Disability
- Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 12 “They Asked for a Hard Job”: World War II Conscientious Objectors on the Front Lines
- Note
- References
- Closing Remarks
- Appendix 1 Field Notes
- Appendix 2 Interview Guide Template
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- EULA